Warning Multi-Factor Authentication - Investigating
SUMMARY OF IMPACT: Starting at 14:25 UTC on 27 Nov 2018, customers using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
may experience intermittent issues signing into Azure resources, such as Azure Active Directory, when MFA
is required by policy. Impacted customers may encounter timeout errors.
CURRENT STATUS: Engineers continue to restart backend services responsible for processing Multi-Factor Authentication.
Initial investigation indicates that some MFA authentication requests are completing successfully and some customers may
be seeing signs of recover. In other cases, service restarts appear to provide only temporary relief, so engineers
continue to explore alternate remediation options.
NEXT UPDATE: The next update will be provided by 19:30 UTC.
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We have an outage. We tried rebooting it, but it may or may not work for you.

"You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower,
the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end.
You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you.
Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle."
- Bryan Cantrill - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos (Usenix 2011)

The Creed of the Specialist
Courtesy of Suzie S.
No one gets away with more than I. I am a non Non-Commissioned Officer, a beast of burden.
As a junior enlisted soldier I realize that I am a member of an under appreciated, much
chastised group of soldiers which is known as the ribcage, or perhaps pancreas, of the Army.
￼I am proud of myself and my fellow Specialists and will continue to bitch, whine and sham
until the absolute last second regardless of the mission at hand. I will use my grade and
position to avoid responsibility, accountability and any sense of presence of mind.
Ignorance is my watchword. My two best excuses will always be on the tip of my tongue
"I didn't know," and "It wasn't me." I will strive to remain invisible and unavailable
for details. Never ever volunteer for anything is my rallying cry.
I am aware of my role as a SPC and if you need me for anything, I'll be on appointment.
I know the other soldiers, and I will always refer to them by their first name or in some
cases derogatory nickname. On weekends, or days off I will consistently drink myself into
oblivion, and I will never answer my phone. I understand that for a person in my hierarchal
position, rewards are going to be few and far between, and punishment
will always be swift and severe.
Officers of my unit will have maximum time to accomplish their duties, because I will be
accomplishing them for them. I will kiss up to their face and badmouth them behind their back,
just like everyone else. I will be loyal to those with home I serve, provided there's something
in it for me. I am the last bastion of common sense that stands between me and the Army
philosophy of "Work Harder, Not Smarter." My voice is a tool and my complaints are a weapon
that I wield with unmatched skill and finesse. I will not forget, nor will I allow my comrades
to forget, Specialist is the greatest rank in the Army and rank has its privileges

Please read:
http://faculty.cs.niu.edu/~rickert/cf/bad-ehlo.htmlIf you do this, it seems you confuse spam filtering / blocking
with email blocking.
Please change the name of your service to email blocking, so that it matches the service
Summary in case this link breaks in future:

rfc2821 - ...
An SMTP server MAY verify that the domain name parameter in the EHLO command actually corresponds
to the IP address of the client. However, the server MUST NOT refuse to accept a message for this reason
if the verification fails: the information about verification failure is for logging and tracing only.